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Wriuity <trnllrgr iullrtiu NECROLOGY , Hartford 6, Connecticut July, 1946 VOLUME XLIII NEW SERIES NUMBER 3 Issued Quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mailing at' special rate of pos:tage provided for in Section 1103, A ct of October 3, 1917, authorized March 3, 1919. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue; Re­ ports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announce­ ments, Necrology, and Circulars of Information. NECROLOGY TRINITY MEN Whose deaths were reported . during the year 1945-1946 Hartford, Connecticut July, 1946 r, . i .I '· PREFATORY NOTE This Obituary Record is the twenty-sixth issued·, the plan of devoting the July issue of the Bulletin to this use having been adopted in 1918. The data here presented have been . collected through the persistent efforts of the Treasurer's Office. Readers who find it in their ·power to correct errors or to contribute further information will confer a great favor if they will at - once communicate with the Office of the Alumni Sec­ retary. Material co,rrections and additions will be in­ corporated in the next issue of the Necrology. Attention is particularly called to those alumni for whose biographies we have only meagre data. It is hoped that relatives and friends may be able to supply additional information, so that an adequate record may • be preserved. -JOHN A. MASON, '34. ,_ ; ·•· :, 0 -BITUARY RECORD Eric Pierson Swenson Class of 187 5 Eric Pierson Swenson, the son of Svante Magnus and Sue Mc­ Ready Swenson, died August 14, 1945, at Upper Saranac Lake, New York, at the age of ninety. He entered Trinity in 1872 w:ith the class of 1875. He was a member of Epsilon Chapter of Delta Psi Fraternity. He had many financial, industrial and business inteJ.<ests. He was a director of the National City Bank for thirty-three years, and senior partner in the brokerage firm of S. M. Swenson & Sons. He was also president of the Swenson Land and Cattle Com­ pany, which holds grazing lands and operates several ranches in Texas. A pioneer in the sulphur industry, he was formerly president of the Freeport Texas Company, now the Freeport Sulphur Com­ pany. He also held directorships in the Southern Pacific Company, Pacific Oil Company, Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the New York Shipbuilding Company. On June 10, 1889> he married Miss Maud Tilgman, who died in 1891. He later married Miss Amelie B. Berthelot, who died in 1929. He is survived, by two sons, S. R. and S. Magnus, botli of New York City. TRINITY COLLEGE Benjamin Stark, Jr. Class of 1879 Benjamin Stark, Jr., was born in Portland, Oregon, October 26, 1858, the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Molthrop Stark of New London, Connecticut. After preparation for college at Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, he entered Trinity in 1875 with the class of 1879. He played on the college football and baseball teams. He was a mem­ ber of the Epsilon Chapter of Delta Psi Fraternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the age of three, he went to Washington, D. C., with his mother and sisters, crossing the Isthmus of Panama on donkey back, to join his father who was the United States Senator from Oregon. In· 1898 Captain Stark joined the Connecticut volunteers going to Havana during the Spanish-American war. Later he served for ten years at Zamboaga, Mindanao, as Captain df a company of Philippine scouts. Since 1911 Captain Stark worked at the Electric Boat Com­ pany in New London, where he was a familiar figure in the blue­ print room. He died on August 10, 1945, and left no relatives. He was a member of Murphy-Rathbun post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the George M. Cole camp, United Spanish War Veterans. He was the oldest communicant of St. James Church where his family worshiped since 1861. George Greene Class of 1883 George Greene, the son of George Greene and Frances Re­ becca Graves Greene, died on December 17, 1945, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was born December 25, 1859, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and received his education for college at the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minnesota. He entered Trinity in 1880 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1883. He was a member of the Missionary Society, Glee Club, Chapel Choir, Class President in his junior year, Presi­ dent of the Trinity Tablet, and Treasurer of the Athletic Associa­ tion. He was a memb'er of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. OBITUARY RECORD 7 He was active in real estate at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from 1883 to 1904. During that period he was in the Iowa National Guard with the rank of Captain, Colonel, Major and Adjutant General. In 1905 he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he entered various shoe companies, in Boston and Beverly. In 1918 he became assistant treasurer of the Aetna Mills of Watertown, Massachusetts, until his retirement in 1933. He married Miss Charlotte Winton of Jamaica Plain, Massa­ chusetts, , on September 1, 1886. There were twin daughters: Ruth and Esther. Mr. Greene's brother-in-law, Nicholas Williams Mcivor, was a member of the class of 1882, and Carlisle Chandler Melvor of the dass of 1918, is his nephew. John Frederick Sexton Class of 1883 John Frederick Sexton was born on April 4, 1859, at Cheshire, Connecticut, the son of John and Cecilia Forster Sexton. After preparation_ for college at the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, he entered Trinity in 1879 with the class of 1883. He was Chronicler, of his class, and a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. He graduated in 1883 with a B.A. degree, and in 1885 received his M.A. He graduated from the Berkeley Divinity School in 1886, and became rector of St. Peter's Church, Cheshire, until 1896. He then moved to New Haven as rector of St. James the Apostle for forty years.· He was also priest in charge at St. Paul's, Southington, and at St. Andrew's, New Haven. He was Chaplain for the Connecticut State Senate in 1915 and 1916. He was a trustee of Cheshire Academy. Recently the Academy named one of its buildings for him. He was a director of Cheshire School, Inc. The Rev. Sexton was active in the Knights Templar; the Odd Fellows; and the Masons in which he held a thirty-second degree. On September 29, 1886, he married Mary Louise Lester, of Hartford. There were five children: Mary Cecilia, Frederick Lester, Charles Watkins, Gertrude Alice and Ru~h Keville. The Rev. Sexton died July 8, 1946, at his home in New Haven. 8 TRINITY COLLEGE Edgar Lewis Sanford Class of 1884 Edgar Lewis Sanford was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on · June 24, 1864, the son of David Platt S"'nford, Washington (Trin­ ity) 1844, and Emma Bartow Lewis Sanford. After preparing for college at Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, he entered Trinity in 1880 with the class of 1884. He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fra­ ternity. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1884. He then studied at the Berkeley Divinity School from which he graduated in 1887. He received a S.T.B. (in course) from the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1907, and a S.T.D. (in course) from the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1918. He had been rector of churches in Willimantic, Connecticut; Ogdensburg, New York; Honey brook, Pennsylvania; Bordentown, New Jersey; before being Canon of the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral of Trenton, New Jersey. He was honorai-y canon of this Cathedral at the time of hi~ death, October 16, 1945. He was in charge of religious education, at the Cathedral, and also edited the "Home Study Quarterly,"' and· was the author of church school textbooks published by the Diocese of New Jersey. He was a delegate from the Diocese of Albany to the l'an-Anglican Congress in London in 1908. · . On October 16, 1889, he married Miss Anna Eugenia Munson of Winsted, Connecticut. There were three children: Vera, Eva Matthews, and Anna Munson. Henry Hobart Barber Class of 1890 The Rev. Henry Hobart Barber died on November 30, 1945, in Augusta, Georgia. Born in Mocksville, North Carolina, August 24, 1862, the son of the Rev. Samuel Swann Barber and Sarah Harding Barber, he prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut at Cheshire, Connecticut. He entered Trinity in 1887 and graduated with the degree of B.A. in 1890. He delivered the Commence- OBITUARY RECORD ' ment oration. In 1893 he completed his training at the General Theological Seminary. His first parish was the Church of the Good Shepherd, Houlto11, Maine. In 1895 ·he accepted a call to the rectorship of St. Atha­ nasius' Church ( now Holy Comforter), Burlington, North Ca·ro­ lina, and after five years he accepted a call to Christ Church, Greenburg, Pennsylvania.